Across the country, thousands held rallies in protest of the Trump administration's "zero-tolerance" policy that has resulted in the separation of more than 2,000 children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Organizer Gabrielle Spuckes, executive director of the Lee County Democratic Party, was told by MoveOn.org on Saturday morning that there were approximately 750 groups around the country holding rallies. Protesters were asked to RSVP before attending.

Hundreds of people came out to protest the Zero Tolerance Policy at the border and to demand that families be reunited on Saturday during the Families Belong Together Rally in downtown Fort Myers. Amanda Inscore/The News-Press

Hundreds of people came out to protest the Zero Tolerance Policy at the border and to demand that families be reunited on Saturday during the Families Belong Together Rally in downtown Fort Myers. Amanda Inscore/The News-Press

Hundreds of people came out to protest the Zero Tolerance Policy at the border and to demand that families be reunited on Saturday during the Families Belong Together Rally in downtown Fort Myers. Amanda Inscore/The News-Press

Hundreds of people came out to protest the Zero Tolerance Policy at the border and to demand that families be reunited on Saturday during the Families Belong Together Rally in downtown Fort Myers. Amanda Inscore/The News-Press

Hundreds of people came out to protest the Zero Tolerance Policy at the border and to demand that families be reunited on Saturday during the Families Belong Together Rally in downtown Fort Myers. Amanda Inscore/The News-Press

Hundreds of people came out to protest the Zero Tolerance Policy at the border and to demand that families be reunited on Saturday during the Families Belong Together Rally in downtown Fort Myers. Amanda Inscore/The News-Press

Hundreds of people came out to protest the Zero Tolerance Policy at the border and to demand that families be reunited on Saturday during the Families Belong Together Rally in downtown Fort Myers. Amanda Inscore/The News-Press

Hundreds of people came out to protest the Zero Tolerance Policy at the border and to demand that families be reunited on Saturday during the Families Belong Together Rally in downtown Fort Myers. Amanda Inscore/The News-Press

Hundreds of people came out to protest the Zero Tolerance Policy at the border and to demand that families be reunited on Saturday during the Families Belong Together Rally in downtown Fort Myers. Amanda Inscore/The News-Press

Hundreds of people came out to protest the Zero Tolerance Policy at the border and to demand that families be reunited on Saturday during the Families Belong Together Rally in downtown Fort Myers. Amanda Inscore/The News-Press

Hundreds of people came out to protest the Zero Tolerance Policy at the border and to demand that families be reunited on Saturday during the Families Belong Together Rally in downtown Fort Myers. Amanda Inscore/The News-Press

Hundreds of people came out to protest the Zero Tolerance Policy at the border and to demand that families be reunited on Saturday during the Families Belong Together Rally in downtown Fort Myers. Amanda Inscore/The News-Press

Hundreds of people came out to protest the Zero Tolerance Policy at the border and to demand that families be reunited on Saturday during the Families Belong Together Rally in downtown Fort Myers. Amanda Inscore/The News-Press

Hundreds of people came out to protest the Zero Tolerance Policy at the border and to demand that families be reunited on Saturday during the Families Belong Together Rally in downtown Fort Myers. Amanda Inscore/The News-Press

Hundreds of people came out to protest the Zero Tolerance Policy at the border and to demand that families be reunited on Saturday during the Families Belong Together Rally in downtown Fort Myers. Amanda Inscore/The News-Press

Hundreds of people came out to protest the Zero Tolerance Policy at the border and to demand that families be reunited on Saturday during the Families Belong Together Rally in downtown Fort Myers. Amanda Inscore/The News-Press

Hundreds of people came out to protest the Zero Tolerance Policy at the border and to demand that families be reunited on Saturday during the Families Belong Together Rally in downtown Fort Myers. Amanda Inscore/The News-Press

Hundreds of people came out to protest the Zero Tolerance Policy at the border and to demand that families be reunited on Saturday during the Families Belong Together Rally in downtown Fort Myers. Amanda Inscore/The News-Press

Hundreds of people came out to protest the Zero Tolerance Policy at the border and to demand that families be reunited on Saturday during the Families Belong Together Rally in downtown Fort Myers. Amanda Inscore/The News-Press

Hundreds of people came out to protest the Zero Tolerance Policy at the border and to demand that families be reunited on Saturday during the Families Belong Together Rally in downtown Fort Myers. Amanda Inscore/The News-Press

Hundreds of people came out to protest the Zero Tolerance Policy at the border and to demand that families be reunited on Saturday during the Families Belong Together Rally in downtown Fort Myers. Amanda Inscore/The News-Press

Hundreds of people came out to protest the Zero Tolerance Policy at the border and to demand that families be reunited on Saturday during the Families Belong Together Rally in downtown Fort Myers. Amanda Inscore/The News-Press

Hundreds of people came out to protest the Zero Tolerance Policy at the border and to demand that families be reunited on Saturday during the Families Belong Together Rally in downtown Fort Myers. Amanda Inscore/The News-Press

Hundreds of people came out to protest the Zero Tolerance Policy at the border and to demand that families be reunited on Saturday during the Families Belong Together Rally in downtown Fort Myers. Amanda Inscore/The News-Press

Hundreds of people came out to protest the Zero Tolerance Policy at the border and to demand that families be reunited on Saturday during the Families Belong Together Rally in downtown Fort Myers. Amanda Inscore/The News-Press

Hundreds of people came out to protest the Zero Tolerance Policy at the border and to demand that families be reunited on Saturday during the Families Belong Together Rally in downtown Fort Myers. Amanda Inscore/The News-Press

Hundreds of people came out to protest the Zero Tolerance Policy at the border and to demand that families be reunited on Saturday during the Families Belong Together Rally in downtown Fort Myers. Amanda Inscore/The News-Press

Hundreds of people came out to protest the Zero Tolerance Policy at the border and to demand that families be reunited on Saturday during the Families Belong Together Rally in downtown Fort Myers. Amanda Inscore/The News-Press

Hundreds of people came out to protest the Zero Tolerance Policy at the border and to demand that families be reunited on Saturday during the Families Belong Together Rally in downtown Fort Myers. Amanda Inscore/The News-Press

Hundreds of people came out to protest the Zero Tolerance Policy at the border and to demand that families be reunited on Saturday during the Families Belong Together Rally in downtown Fort Myers. Amanda Inscore/The News-Press

Hundreds of people came out to protest the Zero Tolerance Policy at the border and to demand that families be reunited on Saturday during the Families Belong Together Rally in downtown Fort Myers. Amanda Inscore/The News-Press

Hundreds of people came out to protest the Zero Tolerance Policy at the border and to demand that families be reunited on Saturday during the Families Belong Together Rally in downtown Fort Myers. Amanda Inscore/The News-Press

Hundreds of people came out to protest the Zero Tolerance Policy at the border and to demand that families be reunited on Saturday during the Families Belong Together Rally in downtown Fort Myers. Amanda Inscore/The News-Press

Hundreds of people came out to protest the Zero Tolerance Policy at the border and to demand that families be reunited on Saturday during the Families Belong Together Rally in downtown Fort Myers. Amanda Inscore/The News-Press

Hundreds of people came out to protest the Zero Tolerance Policy at the border and to demand that families be reunited on Saturday during the Families Belong Together Rally in downtown Fort Myers. Amanda Inscore/The News-Press

Hundreds of people came out to protest the Zero Tolerance Policy at the border and to demand that families be reunited on Saturday during the Families Belong Together Rally in downtown Fort Myers. Amanda Inscore/The News-Press

“I’m grateful this many people showed,” she said. “There’s a lot of events going on. The theme of this is not to accept families being torn apart.”

This emotional issue has huge political undertones.

Even pollsters have a drastically different view on who’s to blame.

A recent Rasmussen Reports poll says 54 percent of likely U.S. voters say the parents are more to blame for breaking the law, 35 percent believe the federal government is more to blame for enforcing the law and 11 percent are not sure.

A new Harvard CAPS/Harris poll found that 61 percent of voters say the administration is responsible for the family separations, while 39 percent blame the parents who are accused of illegally crossing into the United States, according to The Hill.

Rasmussen further notes that 82 percent of Republicans and 56 percent of voters not affiliated with either major political party feel the parents are more to blame for breaking the law. But 60 percent of Democrats say the government is more to blame for enforcing the law.

Despite temperatures in the high 90s with little wind, protesters filled the old courthouse steps. A common theme of the dozens of signs was to reunite families and their children.

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Daisy the dog wears her Dogs Against Deportation sign at the Families Belong Together Rally on Saturday at the Old Lee County Courthouse in Fort Myers.(Photo11: Amanda Inscore/The News-Press)

Richard Schaffer, 74, who moved to Fort Myers from North Dakota six years ago, wore an Uncle Sam suit with red, white and blue. He usually wears the attire for sports events and as a way to greet veterans.He appeared for something more somber.

“I’ve never been active with the Democratic or Republican Party,” he said. “But I can’t stand it anymore. I have to participate.

“I can’t believe what I’m seeing. This is not the country I was born in 75 years ago. I need to do something. I just can’t complain.”

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Siri Amir Kaur is one of hundreds of people who attended the Families Belong Together Rally in Fort Myers on Saturday.(Photo11: Amanda Inscore/The News-Press)

John Planas, a member of the Florida Democratic Party, shared some passionate thoughts in his speech. That’s because he was born in Miami to Cuban parents who emigrated.

“Cubans are treated with much more privilege,” he said. “That’s the very kind of status I want other people from Americas to have when they come here. They want to get away from authoritarianism, crime, poverty.

As the immigration issue on the national level receives a great amount of attention, the rally Saturday in Naples focused on undocumented immigrants living quietly in Collier County who are afraid the attention could lead to more ICE interaction and deportations. Specifically, people at the Naples rally protested the 287(g) policy of the Collier County Sheriff's Office.

Policy 287(g) is an agreement between Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a component of the Department of Homeland Security and the Collier County Sheriff's Office to keep 32 trained officers to perform immigration enforcement.

"During the last month, we were contacted by two families, and in each instance, a driver was stopped for a minor violation. In one case they didn't have a light on, and in the other case, the windows were too dark. And in each case, they ended up being arrested and held in detention by ICE in the Collier County Jail," said David Goldstein, President of Collier County ACLU.